John Knowles Paine (Sonata for Violin and Piano)

Paine is considered to be the first American composer of international repute. He also established the first department of music in an American institute of higher learning. While his own finely crafted music sounds every bit like the works of, say, Schumann or Mendelssohn, his importance as an educator cannot be overstated. John Alden Carpenter, Frederick Converse, Arthur Foote - these are just of few Paine's pupils who helped usher in the beginnings of an American music landscape.

The Sonata for Violin and Piano (Opus 24) was completed in 1875. Thirty years later (1905) Paine made extensive revisions to the work, changes which showed a matured composer exploring broader harmonic ideas.

Superbly performed by Joseph Silverstein (violin) and Virginia Eskin (piano)

Paintings by Fitz Henry Lane (1804-1865)

[ACJWJ]

Just beautiful. A treasure. He teases us at the end with the play on parallel majors and minors, but, as expected, finishes on the major.

[harryandruschak]

Only 858 views? And I am the 9th "like"? Does this composer deserve the obscurity that he currently has?

[hieronymus]

Is this the original 1875 version or the 1905 revision?